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	'<{title}>' => 'Secret handshakes',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="diet">
	<h2>Dietary intake</h2>
	<p>
		I tried to make the cashew-based cheese sauce, but there just wasn&apos;t enough time to look up all the unit conversions online. Most of the ingredient amounts are given in volume, but I use a kitchen scale, so they have to be converted to units of weight.
		But as each ingredient has a different density, each ingredient to be converted needs to be looked up individually.
		I ended up getting stuck trying to find the conversion rate for white miso.
		I&apos;ll have to come back to this recipe when I have more time.
		I did mention having four different meals planned though, so I just switched to a different option.
		The cashew sauce and the chilli both require foresight, as they require I soak something for several hours.
		While I had the cashews soaking for the sauce, I didn&apos;t have beans soaking for the chilli, so that wasn&apos;t an option.
		I ended up going with a muffuletta, though with a couple changes.
		I used a jalepeno halvarti cheese (dairy-free, of course) and melted it onto the bread.
		Neither of these changes was planned, but I think this should still count as a planned meal.
		I mean, the muffuletta itself has been planned since at least Saturday, and these are only slight tweaks.
		Muffulettas are large, too.
		I&apos;ll actually be getting three dinners out of this.
	</p>
	<p>
		For breakfast, I had 88 grams of breakfast cereal and 190 grams of soy milk.
		The segment of muffuletta I had for dinner today was 297 grams.
		I also snacked on 221 grams of pretzels throughout the day.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="ring">
	<h2>Skull ring</h2>
	<p>
		My skull ring arrived in the mail today.
		I was hugely disappointed.
		First of all, it seems I accidentally entered my old ring size into the order form, not my current ring size.
		So when the company correctly filled the order, I ended up with a ring two sizes too large for my finger.
	</p>
	<p>
		But also, I mentioned that they said they&apos;d throw in a second ring with purchase, right?
		They didn&apos;t do that.
		Instead, they threw in a small piece of candy and a sticker advertising their company.
		Seriously?
		That is <strong>*not*</strong> what they promised.
		I emailed them to let them know about the missing second ring, so we&apos;ll see how that goes.
		I also brought up that I&apos;d accidentally ordered the wrong size of ring, and asked if I could exchange that.
		I admitted that the ring size issue was my mistake (It had to be, right? What are the odds that they got the size wrong and it just so happened to be my old ring size. I had to have messed that up myself.), offered to pay for shipping of the ring back and shipping of the correctly-sized ring, and said I would understand if they couldn&apos;t do exchanges.
		It was my own fault and I&apos;d live with that, but it wouldn&apos;t hurt to ask.
		But then I went back to the missing ring, and said that I&apos;d followed the instructions, so if they weren&apos;t going to send that other ring, it was false advertisement, and that&apos;d be a problem.
		I didn&apos;t want to sound threatening, so I didn&apos;t say I&apos;d demand a refund or anything like that, but I wanted to make it clear that not sending the other ring they&apos;d promised would be swindling me, and hopefully they&apos;re not the sort of company that does that.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I think I&apos;d try to sell an off-site backup to my company by comparing it to insurance.
			Several students have called backups a form of insurance, and though this isn&apos;t accurate, it&apos;s useful when looking at costs and benefits.
			More accurately, it&apos;s <strong>*ensuring*</strong> your data is likely to still be there.
			If it were <strong>*insurance*</strong>, you&apos;d be getting money back to rebuild your data from scratch with, just like when you insure your building, it doesn&apos;t bring your building back after a fire.
			You have to get money from the claim you filed, and use it to hire contractors and buy materials, and get a new building built.
		</p>
		<p>
			Still though, look at the costs of backups versus insurance, and the ease of recovering after disaster with each plan.
			Especially look at the time lost.
			If your data is lost, you could be out of commission for quite a while, struggling to get your data rebuilt as best you can.
			Likely, you won&apos;t even make a dent.
			You&apos;ll be starting mostly from scratch.
			But like the costs of insuring the building, the costs of having a backup more than pay for themselves in the event of a disaster.
			But if your building burns down, and on-site backup doesn&apos;t do you a bit of good.
			And your building&apos;s insurance isn&apos;t going to help you rebuild your data.
			Buildings are fairly easily replaced, compared to data, which really isn&apos;t.
			If the company is going to spend a high amount on building insurance (like they always do), it only makes sense to spend a little on backups, including off-site backups.
			The off-site backups, while less expensive than insurance, are actually quite a bit more valuable after a disaster.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You make a great point about tapes being easily moved to another location.
			You don&apos;t even need a special or unusually-large vehicle to transport them in.
			I mean, you could probably just put them in a storage case in a backpack and <strong>*bike*</strong> them to their destination, if it was close enough (not that many companies are going to get on-board with bike-based backup transportation).
			They&apos;re somewhat small, not too heavy, and not really affected by jostling.
		</p>
		<p>
			I find it interesting that tapes are able to keep their data longer than other storage mediums though.
			I&apos;ll have to look into that later.
			It would explain why companies still use them though, even though things such as $a[USB] drives are so much smaller and able to sore so much more data on them.
			However, like you said, tapes are rather prone to data loss.
			They&apos;re not exactly a very reliable medium.
			And reading from and writing to tapes is a slow endeavour, as you also brought up.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="religion">
	<h2>Religious study</h2>
	<p>
		After yesterday&apos;s homophobia in church, I decided to do some research online to see if that homophobia is actually representative of the church before I confront the missionaries about it on Thursday.
		It turns out it very much is.
		I found something else out though too.
		Apparently, getting into the celestial kingdom, the highest of the three heavens, requires you to get married.
		That means that for gays to get into the highest heaven, they must not only refrain from marrying someone they&apos;d love and enjoy being bonded to, but must also be bonded to someone that they&apos;re not capable of being attracted to.
		It gets deeper though.
		Those of us that are non-binary are neither men nor women, which means we&apos;re not eligible for marriage (because marriage is always between a man and a woman, according to the Mormons) and we&apos;re thus not eligible to go to the celestial kingdom.
		Why are the missionaries even trying to recruit me?
		They know what I am.
		What is even the point of loyalty to their evil god if it can&apos;t even get you into the good eternity?
		There would be absolutely zero reason for me to join this church, even if I believed everything they teach.
	</p>
	<p>
		I also found secret footage of what goes on in the Mormon temples.
		It&apos;s beyond bizarre.
		They&apos;ve got some pretty odd rituals, but the strangest of the bunch is a series of secret handshakes that they believe are required in order to get into the celestial kingdom.
		And because they learn them only in the temples and it&apos;s forbidden to talk about what goes on in the temples outside the temples, most Mormons don&apos;t even know that the religion preaches that these handshakes are required.
		It&apos;s only the Mormons that have been to the temples that know.
		What kind of cult is this?
	</p>
</section>
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